This spooky front door decor for Halloween isn’t really all that scary. But it is pretty, indeed.

Serena Appiah of Thrift Diving styled it for our Halloween Style Challenge series. We sent her a mystery shipment of Home Depot Halloween decorations, and let her (and her boys) do the rest.

Serena didn’t stop just at using the boxed decorations. Be sure to see how she made her own huge DIY spider to complete the Halloween look for her front porch.

Beautifully Spooky Front Door Decor

We’ve never been huge decorators during the holidays.

Don’t get me wrong–I’ve always wanted to fancy up our home and get real “festive” for whatever upcoming holiday. However, when you’ve always struggled to even get your house decorated for the “everyday,” decorating for some holiday takes the back seat!

As my kids get older, however, (ages 10, 6, and 4), I realize that they’re at the age where they’re creating fun memories of their childhood. I want them to think back to the coziness of a decorated home. I want to create annual traditions of pulling the pumpkins out of storage at the first sign of a chill in the air.

I want to see their smiles and listen to their giggles with the first ghoulish screams from the lawn decorations. Halloween has always been one of our favorite times of the year and after living in our home for almost 6 years, I finally feel “settled” in enough to start giving some of my outdoors some holiday decorating love.

It doesn’t hurt, too, that The Home Depot challenged me to decorate our front door and walkway this year! Call is Halloween Serendipity.

Let the #HomeDepotStyleChallenge begin!

The Front Door Before

This is how our front door usually looks, 365 days a year.

… and After

But with a huge shipment of fun decorations from The Home Depot, the kids and I completely transformed our door and walkway for Halloween!

Pumpkin Path Lights

Halloween Wreath

One thing I’ve always wanted on my door was a wreath. As crafty as I am, you’d think I would have DIY’ed one in the nearly six years we’ve lived here. But I hadn’t.

After hanging this cute candy corn wreath, however, and seeing how it “cozies” up my door, I can guarantee that I’ll have a wreath on my door every day! I love this wreath, especially!

One thing that screams “fall” to me, along with pumpkins, are bales of hay, available at many Home Depot stores! I picked this one up from The Home Depot for about $10, and thought it would be the perfect addition to the lighted jack-o-lantern and mums!

As I was setting everything up, the kids started getting excited as they saw it coming together!

With the lights stranded on the bushes…with spider webs entangled in it…they started getting into the spirit and wanting to help pull apart the faux spider webs over the bushes!

The front porch was finally starting to feel magical, especially with all the lighting!

Step 2: Remove the slats

Step 3: Cut the slats to size

Using my miter saw, I cut the crib slats in half.

Since spiders have eight legs, I needed 16 pieces in order to make bent spider legs.

After cutting the crib slats in half and having 16 pieces, I determined how I wanted the spider legs to be pointed, and then used my miter saw (but you can use a jig saw, too) to make the spider legs pointy.